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UST pummels Lady Warriors in straight sets, sends UE on verge of elimination

1 min readAfter a tough loss to fellow final four competitor ADU Lady Falcons last weekend, the Tigresses bounced back to improve to a 6-3 standing, placing them on the third spot.
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Published about 2 years ago on March 29, 2023

by Joie Frances Timbas

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The UST Golden Tigresses swept the winless UE Lady Warriors, 25–17, 25–16, 25–17, to return to their winning ways in the UAAP Season 85 women’s volleyball tournament at the SM Mall of Asia Arena, on March 29, Wednesday afternoon.

After a tough loss to fellow final four competitor ADU Lady Falcons last weekend, the Tigresses bounced back to improve to a 6–3 standing, placing them on the third spot.

The lopsided match had UST leading most of the time whereas head Coach Kungfu Reyes utilized the whole team to see nine of the 11 UST non-libero players contributing at least two points.

The Lady Warriors tried to steal the third set as they were up by a point at the second technical timeout. But UST annihilated a game-clinching run to finish them off in a clean sweep, 25–17.

Team captain Eya Laure did business as usual as she led the Golden Tigresses with 17 points off 15 attacks, a block, and an ace. Behind her were middle blockers Imee Hernandez and Pia Abbu who nabbed eight and seven points, respectively.

UE had double-digit scorers in KC Cepada and Van Bangayan with 12 and 11 points, respectively, while Ja Lana added 10 points.

Coming up next for UST is a crucial, rivalry rematch as they face the still-unblemished DLSU Lady Spikers on Sunday at the SMART Araneta Coliseum.

UST has been the lone team to take the №1 seeded Lady Spikers to a fifth-set duel this season.

UST Golden Tigresses

Kungfu Reyes

Eya Laure

Imee Hernandez

Pia Abbu

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Joie Frances Timbas was the Sports Editor of TomasinoWeb. She first started in the organization in 2021 as a Sports Writer where her first published story, Immortalizing the gentle giant, was recognized in the 2022 Philippine Student Quill Awards. She now leads TomasinoWeb’s Sports section in the Writing department that covers everything UAAP-related and more. Outside her beat, Joie is a Journalism senior who is busy beating deadlines and working on her thesis on understanding news avoidance. She also was an intern for The Manila Times under Sports and Regions. When Joie is not writing, she’s somehow still stuck in the world of sports as she plays multiple sports, mostly basketball, badminton, volleyball and darts. When she gets physically tired, she turns to video games or gets sucked back into just watching sports, yet again.

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